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> Why didn't mesh networks flourish? Because of the need for network management. Even the idealised Internet has a few centralised resources, such as the IP a
by femto 12y ago
> Why didn't mesh networks flourish?
Because of the need for network management. Even the idealised Internet has a few centralised resources, such as the IP address space (IANA + the hierarchy of NICs).
There was intense activity in community based WiFi, soon after decent speed WiFi debuted in the early 2000s, but they mostly died, due to the above issue in my experience. Nodedb [1] is still a remnant of that era, which indicates the level of activity that was.
[1] http://www.nodedb.com/ http://www.nodedb.com/
- kaoD 12y ago> Because of the need for network management. Even the idealised Internet has a few centralised resources, such as the IP address space (IANA + the hierarchy of NICs). How is that an issue? You mean it's a problem because of the lack of volunteers for the job, or because of technical issues to achieve proper networking? Guifi has network management policies which you have to follow to be part of the mesh (IP address space, network topology, routing at supernode borders, QoS, etc.) but everything else is decentralized. To be honest I've never been their user, so I'm not sure how good their networking is. Guifi is quite active in Catalonia. What surprises me is how lacking mesh networks are everywhere else. Perhaps I should be surprised at how active Guifi is.